I have a situation where I need to place a temporary datastore on a VM. The datastore obviously won't become available until after the ESXi host has been online for a few minutes and the VM has started.
Is there a configuration to help ESXi deal with this situation by not hanging for a long time on boot-up and shutdown? Perhaps adjusting timeouts to some low value? Also is there a way to have ESXi periodically retry datastore mounts? Would NFS work better than block for something like this?
